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In this issue
- Editorial
Peter Breslin - Tucson – where the saguaros bloom
- The results are in! 2026 CSSA Photo Contest Winners
Ann Hopkinson - Interview with Bárbara Goettsch: empowering plant growers to impact conservation outcomes
Peter Breslin - Gasteria‘s hanging on
Cornell Beukes - Monstrose – crested development mosaic in a cultivated Cereus hildmannianus from Eastern India: a detailed morphological and meristematic analysis
Kulesh Bhandari - A gallery of Tylecodon flower portraits
Rob Skillin - Preparing speciments for microscopy
Root Gorelick - Chasing legends: the search for Agave xarizonica
Ron Parker - Eduliferous epiphytic cacti: an overview
Ishita Mehta, Shashi K. Sharma, and Dipti Datta - Aaron’s Rod, A remarkable succulent vine from the savanna region of Africa, with special reference to its extraordinary root lifeline
Ernst van Jaarsveld
About the Cover
The cover of Cactus and Succulent Journal 98-3 features the 2026 CSSA Photo Contest First Place winner. Photo by James W. Carlblom.
Cactus and Succulent Journal
98-3 Fall 2026
The Cactus & Succulent Journal has been published continually by the CSSA since 1929.
Tylecodon pusillus Bruyns from Umdaus, a dwarf geophyte, and an example of a very small Tylecodon, growing in the southern
Richtersveld. Leaves are about 1 cm wide, thickly succulent, appressed to the soil surface and covered with short trichomes. The dried inflorescence is from the previous summer’s flowering.
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Transverse section of shoot of Haageocereus icensis, showing a mass of septate fibers. Red dot in one fiber is a nucleus.
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